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OS7 is new theme for the Jailbroken iOS devices that can skin these device to look more like Windows Phone 7. It is a simple plug-and-play theme, static tiles and application lists are both auto-created. Easily customizable start menu, including live tiles. Requires NO paid plugins. Runs independently from winterboard. Some of the features of the theme are as follows; No Iconoclasm No Infiniboard No SpringJumps No WinterBoard No Setup Required No Missing Icons (Auto-create) Actually, it will be a paid theme but price will be set according to a voting system. Here are the instructions for the installation: 1. Read More >
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Avast! 6 free edition beta preview is available for the download. This time again just like in the previous versions some new features are added from the commercial version. One of the most important is sandbox feature inherited from the commercial sibling of the application. In the AutoSandbox feature of the Avast any malicious application can be detected and automatically put in the sandbox for execution, in this way there is no risk of harming the actual PC by any malware or virus for example. Package also now includes a WebRep browser plugin which displays the reputation of the websites Read More >
Angry Birds iPhone game has taken the iPhone Gaming App charts by storm and is now also available on the Android platform. In fact, it is one of the top games that we mentioned in our list of Top Casual Free Games on the Android. Now the PC version of the Angry Birds is being offered for free by the PC World and Currys online app stores. This offer is already live starting from today. It will run through the whole month of March or until the 15,000 copies run out. To get it for free you just need to Read More >
New rumors have surfaced which claim that Apple's next flagship device, iPAD 2, will not feature Retina Display – the high resolution display of iPhone 4. This claim is based by a Taiwanese analyst, based on production estimates. They claim that Apple has ordered about 4 Million iPAD 2 units to be prepared by the end of this quarter. And this production estimate far exceeds the yield rate for retina displays. Hence, making Apple revert back to standard display for iPAD 2 by default. For the unaware, 'Retina Display" is the ultra crisp screen first featured on iPhone 4 and Read More >
Sony has started to dish out permanent bans for players in Call of Duty Black Ops. The latest firmware update 3.56 for PS3, a 'security update', has the ability to permanently ban people suspected as being Modders, Hackers or Cheaters by Sony. Call of Duty Black Ops is the multi-million mega hit from Team Treyarch which has spent weeks topping games sales charts. Now many people are contesting this decision on the official forums, saying that they were given these bans unjustly as they were not involved in these practices. Some saying "My Friend did it". You can read more Read More >
Internet can be thought of as an infinite universe that we can easily lost in to with almost unlimited boundaries. Just like our universe it also seems to expanding in all direction without any limits in sight. Focus has done a remarkable job of trying to put the magnitude of this amazing world that we call Internet in to perspective. And they do so with some very interesting visualized statistics to put the massive scale of this beast in to perspective. Some of the stats are really mind blowing for example: there 255 million websites on the Internet, 20 million Read More >
Toshiba has just announced it's amazing laptop Qosimo T750 to the world. This laptop is particularly attractive for the people out there that want some really really unique stuff! Well, you might say what is is so unique or special about this laptop. So, the most unique thing about this laptop from Toshiba is that unlike other laptops on the market today its lid is not of a fixed/static color. But instead it actually shifts colors based on the angle from which you see it. Interestingly this effect has been achieved without using any metal surface but instead plastic surface Read More >
In this ongoing iOS vs Android war, where Apple has clearly established its superiority in the gaming platform, Android is still catching up. However, it does not mean that Google's open source OS is without its own share of fun games. Here I unveil my favorite top ten casual android games. This selection of top games is mostly based around casual games which can be played for a couple of minutes while you are travelling in train, waiting for a class to start and so on. And best of all, I have only selected free apps from the Android Market Read More >
Time to get excited for fans of Call of Duty: Black Ops – the first DLC for the game will be made available on Feb 1 this year. It is initially being released on the Xbox 360 whereas the PC and PS3 versions will receive the map pack after one month. Unlike prior DLC or map packs for the Call of Duty series, this one will carry a hefty price tag of $15. Ouch !! Time for Activision to make some more money. Anyways, First strike was featured on Inside XBOX recently and here we are presenting this new official Read More >
Facebook has already taken the world by storm and has now become the most popular website on the Internet for the social interaction. This popularity also brings some problems since there is a massive amount of user data that is stored on their servers and it becomes a security risk in the scenarios where their servers security is compromised, and then all this massive sensitive personal users data on their servers might be leaked in the wild. An exploit for the Facebook has been posted on Reddit by a user that can bypass the Facebook security and allow the access Read More >


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|Whoa - depressing. This British Columbia motel is thankfully in "a sportsman's paradise", in which you can "meet the fighting Kamloops Trout".
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"We're coming down the home stretch," said Jeff Prestinario, co-director of the 9th annual Southwest Half Marathon and 10K, encouraging his team of organizers at one of their last meetings before the races are held on Sunday, May 1.
After months of preparations, going back to last fall, the annual race on Route 83 that Prestinario founded nine years ago with Mel Diab is about to begin.
"It's finally here. We couldn't have done any of this without you," Diab told the organizers, noting that the event falls on his father's 93rd birthday this year.
The organizing committee is in charge of making sure everything runs smoothly at the Half Marathon and 10K, as well as Palos Area Chamber of Commerce's Health and Business Expo being held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Shepard High School, 13049 S. Ridgeland Ave., Palos Heights.
As usual, runners will visit the Expo to pick up their race numbers, T-shirts and goody-bags put together by volunteers.
"I think things will work out well," said Prestinario, as he pointed out that registration has picked up after a slow start early in the year. As of last Friday, there were 1,083 registered, including 788 for the half marathon and about 300 for the 10K.
The events on Sunday will begin with a non-denominational service led by Pastor Ryan Hall of Harvest Bible Chapel. Local mayors, including Jerry Bennett of Palos Hills, John Mahoney of Palos Park, and Bob Straz of Palos Heights will also address the crowd before the races get started.
Straz is also local market president of CNB Bank, one of the principal sponsors of the event this year, along with Palos Community Hospital.
Wheelchair racers competing in the half marathon will get rolling at 7:25 a.m. at the starting point at 7600 W. Route 83, with the runners starting at 7:30 a.m. Cong. Dan Lipinski (D-3rd), is the grand marshal, will fire the shot to get them started, followed by the 10K runners at 7:35 a.m.
The route takes participants mainly through forest preserves, with the turnaround point near Archer Avenue.
A half-mile walk, run and roll race for the developmentally disabled clients of South West Special Recreation Association will then start at 7:45.
"We're always very grateful that since its inception, you have always included everyone in your community in this great event," said Lori Chesna of SWSRA.
In addition to having two new principal sponsors this year, Palos Community Hospital and CNB Bank & Trust, this is also the first year the Expo is being held in the Shepard High School gymnasium, which affords more space for vendors than was available at the previous venue, Moraine Valley Community Church.
Organizers said more than 40 local businesses and agencies have registered and will have tables at the Expo, up from 36 last year, making it the biggest expo ever.
The additional space will allow the health-oriented vendors to be on one side, with the businesses being on the other.
Palos Hospital will be offering blood-pressure screenings at its booth, and physical therapists from the hospital are going to be performing fitness stretching exercises with the runners before the races on Sunday.
Race participants will also be stopping by the Expo to pick up their numbers, shirts, and goody bags packed by volunteers.
"Before you know it will be all over," said Prestinario, pointing out that the race officially ends at 10:30 a.m., with the awards ceremony scheduled for 11. Route 83 will reopen at 12:30 p.m.


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A washed up monster chaser convinces the U.S. Government to fund a trip to an unexplored island in the South Pacific. Under the guise of geological research, the team travels to "Skull Island". Upon arrival, the group discover that their mission may be complicated by the wildlife which inhabits the island. The beautiful vistas and deadly creatures create a visually stunning experience that is sure to keep your attention. Written by Jason Burns
When a mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) is imprisoned within the Great Wall, he discovers the mystery behind one of the greatest wonders of the world. As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, his quest for fortune turns into a journey toward heroism as he joins a huge army of elite warriors to confront the unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force. Written by Watch_Movies
In 2029 the mutant population has shrunken significantly and the X-Men have disbanded. Logan, whose power to self-heal is dwindling, has surrendered himself to alcohol and now earns a living as a chauffeur. He takes care of the ailing old Professor X whom he keeps hidden away. One day, a female stranger asks Logan to drive a girl named Laura to the Canadian border. At first he refuses, but the Professor has been waiting for a long time for her to appear. Laura possesses an extraordinary fighting prowess and is in many ways like Wolverine. She is pursued by sinister figures working for a powerful corporation; this is because her DNA contains the secret that connects her to Logan. A relentless pursuit begins - In this third cinematic outing featuring the Marvel comic book character Wolverine we see the superheroes beset by everyday problems. They are aging, ailing and struggling to survive financially. A decrepit Logan is forced to ask himself if he can or even wants to put his ...
The true story of Desmond T. Doss, the conscientious objector who, at the Battle of Okinawa, won the Medal of Honor for his incredible bravery and regard for his fellow soldiers. We see his upbringing and how this shaped his views, especially his religious view and anti-killing stance. We see Doss's trials and tribulations after enlisting in the US Army and trying to become a medic. Finally, we see the hell on Earth that was Hacksaw Ridge. Written by grantss
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse. Written by Screen Gems / Constantin
In the taut thriller The Shallows, when Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment
Set in a time of interplanetary colonization, Sy Lombrok (Kellan Lutz), a former nurse who is now a drifter with a haunted past, forms an unlikely alliance with Kane Sommerville (Daniel MacPherson), a lieutenant who works for off-world military contractor Exor. In a race against time they set out to rescue Kane's young daughter Indi (Teagan Croft) amid an impending global crisis precipitated by Exor. Written by Teaser-Trailer.com
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. Written by Production
Luke welcomes his friend Matt and his girlfriend Suzie that come from London and Matt's sister and Luke's former girlfriend Kate that comes from Sydney to sail with him and the sailor Warren in a sailboat. However, the vessel hits an underwater rock and capsizes with an opening on her bottom. Luke advises that they should swim in the north direction to reach the Turtle Island, in Queensland, Australia, while they have strength since there is a current moving the boat in the opposite direction of land but Warren prefers to stay on the hull waiting for help since there are sharks in the water. The quartet swims, but they are hunted by a great white shark. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Set, the merciless god of darkness, has taken over the throne of Egypt and plunged the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict. Few dare to rebel against him. A young thief, whose love was taken captive by the god, seeks to dethrone and defeat Set with the aid of the powerful god Horus. Written by James Pasier
MI6's top assassin (Mark Strong) has a brother. Unfortunately for him, he's a football hooligan (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the town of Grimsby. Nobby has everything a man from the poor English fishing town of Grimsby could want - 9 children and the most attractive girlfriend in northern England (Rebel Wilson). There's only one thing missing in his life: his little brother, Sebastian. After they were adopted by different families as children, Nobby spent 28 years searching for him. Upon hearing of his location, Nobby sets off to reunite with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger. On the run and wrongfully accused, Sebastian realizes that if he is going to save the world, he will need the help of its biggest idiot. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment
When Willy Wonka decides to let five children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release five golden tickets in five separate chocolate bars, causing complete mayhem. The tickets start to be found, with the fifth going to a very special boy, called Charlie Bucket. With his Grandpa, Charlie joins the rest of the children to experience the most amazing factory ever. But not everything goes to plan within the factory. Written by FilmFanUK
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison.
The LEGO Movie is a 3D animated film which follows lead character, Emmet a completely ordinary LEGO mini-figure who is identified as the most "extraordinary person" and the key to saving the Lego universe. Emmet and his friends go on an epic journey to stop the evil tyrant, Lord Business. Written by DeAlan Wilson www.ComedyE.com
Simba and Nala have a daughter, Kiara. Timon and Pumbaa are assigned to be her babysitters, but she easily escapes their care and ventures into the forbidden lands. There she meets a lion cub named Kovu and they become friends. What she and her parents do not know is that Kovu is the son of Zira - a banished follower of the now-dead Scar. She plans to raise Kovu to overthrow Simba and become the king of the Pride Lands. This tests not only Kiara and Kovu's relationship as they mature, but Simba's relationship with his daughter. Written by Rori Stevens
First this is all about monsters and any kind of supernatural .After going to a new small town,the teenager boy Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange... he is a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it's suddenly up to Stine, Zach, Hannah, and Zach's friend Champ (Ryan Lee) they all do their best to back all of the monsters in the book.
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await. Written by Anonymous
A few dozen home chefs battle it out in the Masterchef Kitchen to earn the best chef title, judge by top Australian chefs.
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The Pacific follows the lives of a U.S Marine Corps squad during the campaign within the Pacific against the Japanese Empire during WW2. Made by the creators of Band of Brothers, it follows a similar line of thought to outline the hardships of the common man during war. The Pacific is in parts a fast paced war series that can be enjoyed by action lovers whilst containing a more sensitive side when projecting the relationships (brotherhood) of Marines on the battlefield. Where The Pacific takes a new direction from its older brother is in its depiction of the lives of soldiers who were picked to return home to increase the sales of war bonds. In doing this it also depicts the life cycle of returned soldiers from initial joy to the eventual feeling of regret and to a certain extent shame felt by soldiers wanting to return to the war in service of either their comrades or nation. Written by TgRegensse
At Sydney's National Dance Academy, a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. Jewish long line of doctors' heir Samuel 'Sammy' and minor juvenile offender Christian are the outsiders but gradually fit in, making new kinds of friends. Star ballerina's daughter Kat also introduces them in the circle of last-year brother Ethan, who already aspires a career as choreographer. Written by KGF Vissers
When pregnant, 12-year-old Tui tries to kill herself in a freezing New Zealand lake, Detective Robin Griffin has plenty of questions for the girl. But when Tui suddenly disappears, Griffin finds herself knee-deep in small-town secrets.
In its war on the Greek peninsula, the Romans convince the Thracians to join them in defeating the Getae, who have been raiding Thracian villages for generations. The Thracians are fierce warriors and prove to be valiant in battle. They are deceived by the Roman commander, Claudius Glaber, who orders them to fight against the Greeks, something they had not counted on. One of them in particular refuses to fight and rebels against the Romans only to lose the fight and is enslaved along with his wife Sura. The Thracian is transported to Capua where Senator Albinius is sponsoring gladiatorial games. In the arena, the enslaved Thracian manages to defeat four opponents and in allowing the Thracian to live, Senator Albinius decides to name him after a Thracian king from the past: Spartacus. Written by garykmcd
The story of the impossible loves of 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman and her fabulously messy family.
Three ordinary women discover an Island on Mako and a moon pool that turns them into extraordinary mermaids with special powers over water on the night of a full moon. They must never look in the moon's eye or there will be side effects for each of them.
This prime time television event, which has just celebrated its 18th season in the United States, will give one Australian bachelor and various bachelorettes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find true love. Hosted by Osher Günsberg, The Bachelor Australia follows the Bachelor and the Bachelorettes on a romantic series of elaborate single and group dates, resulting in a rose ceremony where the Bachelor presents a single rose to the ladies that he would like to get to know more. As the series reaches its climax, the Bachelor will invite a few special Bachelorettes to spend the night with him on individual overnight dates in a beautiful location. This is the prelude to the nail-biting finale where the Bachelor must select the one woman that has won his heart. And to the question that will be on everybody's lips come finale: will the Bachelor pop the question? Written by Anonymous
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A recently widowed father, quits his job as a popular 800 word columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper. Over the internet he buys a house on an impulse in a remote New Zealand seaside town. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids who just lost their mum, and now face an even more uncertain future. But the colourful and inquisitive locals ensure his dream of a fresh start does not go to plan. Written by marcus-b1285
The lives of staff and residents at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and Stanton House in Sydney in 1969.
1953. After 20 years living in Europe, Sarah Adams returns to Australia. While working as a nurse on the ocean voyage home, Sarah meets the influential and wealthy Bligh family and discovers a scandalous family secret. In Sydney, Sarah finds her estranged mother still unwilling to forgive her perceived sin of converting to Judaism. With no other prospects, Sarah takes up George Bligh's offer of a job in the Inverness hospital, much to the disapproval of George's overbearing mother, Elizabeth. Written by L. Hamre
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A doctor is a war veteran who was at the fall of Singapore, suffering trauma from war memories. He begins solving crimes. Written by CK
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A community filled with tasteful elegance, Carson Plaza is situated just minutes away from fine dining, area shopping and local medical facilities.
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This is a superb facility for Assisted Living. The staff is caring and attentive. Our mother lived here and was very pleased with the care she received. The staff interacted with our family and helped with any concerns or needs...Read more The Lodge Assisted Living and Memory Care reviews
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I chose Carson Plaza. It was clean, a good size, and they have very friendly people working there. I got good recommendations from the staff that worked there, they've been there a long time, and they were raving about the place. My parents have been there about three weeks...Read more Carson Plaza reviews
I liked Carson Plaza. Everybody seemed to be happy and getting along. We had lunch there. However, we would not consider moving there because of their eating schedule. My husband and I like to eat later, so we would want to go some place that is more flexible about the eating schedule...Read more Carson Plaza reviews
Carson Plaza was a very nice place. It would fit anybody looking for a place like that, including myself. If I had my decision right now, I might go there. There were a lot of good amenities to it. The rooms were nice. I looked at the studio and the one- and two-bedrooms...Read more Carson Plaza reviews


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We had a 13 hour stay over after arriving from La Pampa and decided to stay here under their "Day Pass" modality. Happy to say it worked out quite well. We had access to our room and all hotel amenities between 9 am and 11pm...More
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Mercer Cruises Past Elon, 13-7
June 5, 2010
ATLANTA, Ga. -The Mercer baseball team rebounded nicely from an opening round loss by pounding out 18 hits on its way to a 13-7 NCAA Atlanta Regional win over Elon on Saturday afternoon at Russ Chandler Stadium.
The win means that Mercer (38-23) will play the loser of tonight's Georgia Tech/Alabama game tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. at Russ Chandler Stadium.
Today's victory set two milestones for Mercer. It was the Bears 38th of the season, tying the 1979 squad for the second-most wins in a season in school history. The win was also head coach Craig Gibson's 200th win of his career at Mercer putting his overall record at 200-191 during his seven year tenure.
"I am just so happy for our guys because they are such a special group that is so much fun to be around," said head coach Craig Gibson. "To come up to our first NCAA Regional and win a game is a special feeling and a great accomplishment for our program and the university as a whole."
Sophomore Billy Burns lead-off the game with a single up the middle and made some history soon after. Burns stole his 30th base of the season to tie the Mercer single-season record currently held by Barry Veal. The stolen base ended up being huge as junior Thomas Carroll drove him in two batters later with an RBI single to plate Mercer's first run in NCAA Tournament history.
The Bears weren't done there, however, tacking on two more runs in the frame. After Carroll's single, senior Michael Langley stepped up and cemented his place in Atlantic Sun Conference and Mercer history. Langley drove a single up the middle for his 100th hit of the season, making him the first Mercer player to ever collect 100 hits in a season and putting him in a tie for the fourth-most hits by an A-Sun player in single-season history. Junior Joe Winker culminated the inning with a huge two-out two-RBI single to increase the Bears lead to 3-0.
Elon responded in the top of the second when junior Neal Pritchard connected for a solo home run, his 12th of the season, to put the Phoenix on the board and make the score 3-1.
The Phoenix threatened to cut even further into the Bears lead, but Mercer starter Matt McCall induced Pritchard into an inning ending double play to get out of the jam.
The Orange and Black continued its assault on Elon starter Ken Ferrer with three more runs in the bottom of the third. After the first three Bears reached base, Langley sliced an RBI-single to right field to put Mercer up 4-1. Winker came through as the next batter up when he laced a two-RBI double down the right field line to extend the Bears advantage to 6-1.
Burns started the bottom half of the fourth for Mercer with a triple down the right field line. That triple was Burns' fourth of the season, putting him in a two-way tie for the third-most in Mercer single-season history. McCarty promptly drove him in just moments later with a single through the right side to put the Bears up 7-1. Carroll kept the runs coming when he stepped up with two men on and absolutely crushed a three-run home run to right field to put Mercer comfortably in front, 10-1.
That was more than enough run support for McCall who was strong throughout his outing. The Valdosta, Ga. native allowed four earned runs on three hits in 4.1 innings before being lifted due to a high pitch count.
Freshman David Teasley came on in relief with a bases loaded jam, but could not get out of it giving up a grand slam to freshman Alex Swim to bring Elon within five, at 10-5.
Mercer refused to get rattled, however, responding with two more runs in the bottom half of the fifth to put the game out of reach. An RBI double by McCarty and an RBI single by Tanis pushed the Bears lead up to 12-5.
The Orange and Black bullpen did the rest from there, with sophomore David Randall, senior Lath Guyer, senior Scott Patterson and sophomore Jacob Matthews combining to allow just two runs over the final three innings of the contest.
Carroll finished his monster game going three-for-four with four RBI and three runs scored while Winker also drove in four runs and on two hits in the contest.
Tanis actually collected his 100th hit of the 2010 season in this game as well, with a single in the third, making him the second Bear in history to collect 100 hits in a single-season.
"Our guys really swung the bats well tonight and took some of the pressure off with some early runs," said Gibson. "We came up here to win some games and we will be ready and looking forward to playing tomorrow no matter who we play."


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sept. 9, 2016) - Walter Energy Canada Holdings, Inc. ("Walter Energy Canada" or "the Company"), today announced that the court approved sale of its Canadian assets to Conuma Coal Resources Limited ("Conuma"), a member of the ERP Group of Companies, has closed. Conuma intends to resume mining operations at the Brule Mine in the near future and may resume other mining operations in the area in 2017.
Walter Energy Canada and certain of its affiliates and partnerships obtained creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) (the "CCAA") pursuant to an Initial Order granted on December 7, 2015. The sale of the Company's assets was approved by order of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, pronounced on August 16, 2016. The sale represents the successful conclusion of the Canadian assets sale of Walter Energy Canada's sale and investment solicitation process, commenced in January of this year.
Walter Energy Canada intends to pursue a transaction for its interests in the Walter United Kingdom assets. The Walter United Kingdom entities are not subject to creditor protection.
Walter Energy Canada is a holding company for the Canadian and UK operations of Walter Energy, Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama. Walter Energy Canada and Walter United Kingdom were not part of the U.S. chapter 11 filing of Walter Energy, Inc. on July 15, 2015 and were not included in the asset purchase agreement that Walter Energy, Inc. entered into on November 5, 2015.
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Although Joe Meno's story collection Demons in the Spring is bursting with supernatural elements, "Ghost Plane" is about as unfantastic as it gets. His storytelling is not so much hyperrealist as it is a short, sharp representation, a diorama or a tilt-shift photograph—so real it looks like a fable.
The story's two characters, stranded in Belize at the tail end of a very unsuccessful vacation, are not particularly nice people. But neither are they evil. Billy and Nicole are just your garden-variety assholes; he's a bit of a sleaze and an ugly American in mirror shades and a tropical shirt, she's a spoiled young high-maintenance type. But beyond that, they're just folks. You've known them, or perhaps you've been them. And surely you've had that bad vacation sensation even with your dearest beloved, when you've checked into the room and are lying side by side on the bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering exactly how you're going to fill the next series of days without the backdrop of normal life that holds everything together.
Billy and Nicole are definitely not dearest beloveds. He picked her up at a party because he liked her breasts, and they made out in a taxicab. But they're not strangers, either. There's a relationship here—some time elapsed between the taxicab makeout session and their actually "doing it," and there have been birthday presents—but Billy's the one whose point of view we're getting and he is, as mentioned, kind of a dick. But not the worst kind of dick. Just your garden-variety dick, who's run out of patience with his weepy undermedicated girlfriend and knows he could be nicer but isn't.
And there's the beauty of the story. Meno manages to compact these people and all their messy ambivalence into a few pages, a couple of brief and aggravating episodes, and illuminate them from inside without ever making them pretty. His depth of field is shallow: They miss a plane, they find a dirty hotel room for the night. Billy buys some fireworks. Two of these are duds, but the third—a paper "monkey with a red fez riding an antique-looking bike"—works. It's the only beautiful, marvelous thing in the story, and obviously the only beautiful, marvelous thing that's happened to Billy and Nicole during their five days in Belize:
Billy kneeled and lit the fuse, then hurried away, the small monkey exploding with white fire, shooting across the street, disappearing into a small field, jumping from the ground, and vanishing into the night sky. The girl was surprised, for the first time in a long time maybe, and began clapping, her mouth wide open.
A burst of joy ensues, the story ends, and you just know Billy and Nicole will be back at each other's throats in another 45 minutes. But that is no concern of ours, and what we're left with is oddly appealing. This isn't a train wreck we're given, but a gleaming little model train set, and watching them harmlessly derail is half the fun. As awful as Billy and Nicole are, they're not tragic. They'll get home, they'll survive. When the missed plane pulls away without them, Nicole says, "I'm already on that plane. I'm flying away from here. I'm gone and never looking back at this terrible place or you ever again."
You get the feeling Nicole is something of a liar, but this is the one and only true lie she tells in the course of the story. She's not on that ghost plane, not even in her head, and the reader ends up a whole lot better off for it.
Demons in the Spring is rich in artwork, with a different artist commissioned for each story, and Jon Resh's illustrations here are extra nice. I would have been quite sad without a picture of the little monkey in the fez.
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The Well Appointed House in Matchbook
This is exactly the color palette I want for our new home - light, fresh and lots of blue and white! I remember when Melissa wrote a blog post on reusing the Gracie wallpaper she has in her dining room. Total genius move. I love all of these rooms so much!
You can read the June issue of Matchbook here
We got to visit the new house yesterday for a few minutes to take some measurements. The current owners were nice enough to grant us access to the house once a week. I happen to notice the lady of the house had a design book opened and tabbed. I'm pretty sure we have similar styles. I think we need to be friends, but I don't want to freak her out. In other news, we've had the windows washed, the carpet cleaned and this weekend we are having the kitchen floors refinished and stained. Just a few more tweaks from a handyman and our house will be ready to put on the market! While I hope it sells fast, it could mean we are homeless for the next few months so that will be interesting. It's all an adventure though with a majorly awesome light at the end of the tunnel so I refuse to stress too much about the unknowns. Ok, I have to go clean and organize. Have a lovely day!
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First congrats to you...how exciting that this is all coming together! Cannot wait to hear/see more. When do you move?ReplyDelete
I love her home, sooo pretty. Gorgeous chinoiserie in the dining room, truly elegant classic style, my absolute fave!
Magazines in general have been a disappointment but must say this one hit it out of the park.....worth taking a second look. Thanks Jennifer!
How exciting to be planning and organizing for such a move. I love this room you've shared...how pretty and so fresh.ReplyDelete
I have been where you are but we have done it all ourselves. Cleaned carpets, painted 8 rooms, filled a dumpster then packed ALOT and out it in a POD, now that has been taken away. The house was supposed to go on the market TODAY, but we are having to get a completely new septic system to the tune of $18,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I YI YI!!!!! The first picture of the oriental guy got me, as I LOVE anything Asain. I will have to check out the blog and the magazine! BESY of luck selling your house. I will keep my fingers crossed for BOTH of us!!!!!!!!!!:):) XO, PinkyReplyDelete
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So we made a little mini-website on Wix a while ago but we were looking at it again recently and realized: we put together a nice little site! While this might not be blog-worthy reading material for some of you, we thought it was worth sharing and with it, a little bit about what we've been up to on it as of late. So if you care to know, continue reading because we're going to talk a bit about it.
We made this little mini vape site back in August of this year. Now that some time has passed, we're revisiting it and seeing how much cool content we've already added to it since we started it and we're impressed with what we're seeing. Heck, it's only October 3rd right now and already we've added a fresh new piece of content – a partial review of the new Arizer Solo 2 which came out not long ago. We actually have the complete review up on our website but you should already know that if you keep up with our blog here on WordPress because we dedicated our last post here to talking all about it. So you must have seen it. Either that or you don't keep up with our blog, which we suggest you do! You can even "follow" our blog here on WordPress so you never miss an update! Which is obviously something we strongly suggest doing, that is, if you even like to vape bro. Haha, we joke. But seriously, follow our blog. And then visit our site at VaporizerShark.com because that's where we keep all of the good stuff – our full length vaporizer reviews, guides, and more. It's all there. Check it out if you know what's good for you because we are one of the most comprehensive vaping resources on the web and we're growing every day. Anyways, enough with the heavy serving of self-promotion, we're going to talk more about what we came here to talk about and that's our little Wix website.
When we call it a mini website, we really mean just that. It's not just a blog. If it was just a blog, would it have a separate homepage? We think not. And being as that is the case, it has its own separate section for the blog. So obviously it's a website seeing as it has all this, just a small one. No big deal. We like it. It's cute. It does what we want it to do and it's really easy to manage because Wix did a pretty darn good job of making some easy tools to make website building and managing straight forward and simplified. Definitely easy enough for us, thankfully. In fact, it was so easy to setup it's actually given us plenty of time to add new content to it, which is something we did a bit of very recently when we added a fresh piece about the newest Arizer vaporizer, the Solo II. This is a vape that was on our radar early on and when we got a chance to review it, we jumped on the opportunity because just about every vaporizer of theirs has been pretty much incredible, especially when you take into account how inexpensive they price them out for. And lo and behold, it's another top notch vape. But that's a topic (how well the Solo 2 works) that we've already covered in great depth recently both on our website and here on our WordPress blog so we're not going to get into all that now other than to say what we just said. So if you want more information on it, you know where to find it.
Now back to our little Wix site. What we really like about it, or at least one of the things we really like about it, is its homepage. It looks great the way the content is meshed together. Everything looks nice, functions well, and basically – we just don't have any complaints as far as it's concerned. But we do have a complaint with something else and that's the horrible looking sub-domain that is part of the URL to our site. It just looks bad. But for having paid nothing to use Wix's tools and have them host our little site, we are definitely not complaining. Much so the opposite. That's a lot for nothing. Definitely appreciate the free space and complimentary site building tools. If you haven't, you may want to check them out for yourself – they make building a little site pretty quick and painless even for a novice that doesn't know a thing about how to build a site.
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The way we market to and with our partners is changing. Driven by digital technology advances, customers are tightly networked to their ecosystems, highly mobile and very social media aware. In short, they are forming new "digital habits" that changes how we influence them.
SVAMA- the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Marketing Association, in partnership with Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals - Silicon Valley (ASAP-SV) has gathered Silicon Valley thought leaders for this third in a series of Game Changer events. Our panel of industry experts will challenge you to look ahead, identify emerging trends, understand their impact and help you prepare for the changes and opportunities ahead.
You'll hear from companies large and small about effective new ways to generate leads and nurture customers through the transformed cycle of awareness, consideration, attraction and decision-making. You'll learn best practices on engaging with ecosystem partners in the battle to control value chains. What technologies will you need to adopt, leverage and throw-out? What does the new distributed marketing and partner organization look like? What's the value to you—and to your company?
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Haim Saban, Univision Communications Inc. chairman and founder of Saban Capital Group, will deliver the keynote at this year's National Assn. of Broadcasters' annual conference in April.
The Q&A session will be led by NAB prez-CEO Gordon Smith following his "State of the Broadcast Industry" address.
"Haim Saban is a true pioneer in the broadcast and entertainment industry who continually finds innovative ways to create and deliver entertainment to international audiences," Smith said.
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By Chine Labbé and Alexandria Sage
PARIS (Reuters) - Carlos the Jackal, once one of the world's most wanted criminals, lost his appeal of a guilty verdict for deadly bomb attacks in France three decades ago, as a Paris court on Wednesday reaffirmed a life sentence in prison.
The Venezuelan defendant, 63, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, had appealed a guilty verdict handed down in December 2011 for masterminding four separate attacks on two trains, a train station and a Paris street that killed 11 people and wounded about 150 more.
The appeals court ruled that Ramirez will serve a minimum of 18 years of the life term.
Before the verdict, the Marxist militant and self-dubbed "elite gunman" who became a symbol of Cold War anti-imperialism delivered a four-hour rambling monologue touching on everything from U.S. foreign policy to Basque separatism and Hezbollah.
"I have fought all my life against terrorists," Ramirez said. "We are not terrorists, we are freedom fighters!"
Ramirez - who is already serving a separate life term from 1997 for killing two French police officers and an informant in 1975 - sealed his notoriety in 1975 with a daring hostage-taking of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna in the name of the Palestinian struggle. He went on to become an international gun-for-hire with Soviet bloc protectors.
But the revolutionary mystique Ramirez once enjoyed - helped by a Che Guevara beret, leather jacket and dark glasses - has worn thin from nearly two decades behind bars in France since his 1994 capture in Khartoum by French special forces, which he calls an illegal kidnapping.
Ramirez denies involvement in the four attacks in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and wounded about 150. He says the case against him that took 13 years to build is based on forged documents from Eastern European secret service agencies.
Prosecutors say the bombs that ripped through two trains, a Marseille train station and parked cars in Paris were Ramirez's answer to the arrest of two of his gang, including his lover.
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Many professional golfers understand essential components of distance control. For many, this is how they distinguish themselves and their abilities from other professions. Of course they get in plenty of practice, but there are other elements they take note of to help them improve this skill. The right distance helps you understand accuracy in how to hit the ball. A secret many golfers use to help them correct their distance control is swing speed. Here, you will distinguish your tempo in how fast or slow you swing along with learning how to maintain it to help you control your distance.
Think about what professional golfers do and how they maintain consistency in their attempts. When you swing your club you should use the same amount of energy as you did before, even if you missed your shot. The significance here is to find your tempo and stick to it. You will notice pros as they play on the course they do not change between swing speeds. You should not have to try and swing quickly first and then go slow when you try again. Each golfer has their own style of swing and you should work to maintain yours to make it work for you.
Professional golfers may change their club when they want more distance. When you think about it this makes sense. A longer club can help you accomplish the same motion and tempo. This will help you get more power in your shot. Few golfers like the idea of using shorter irons to make their shots on the green. It is a form or bragging since it is a challenging aspect to conquer. But, consider using a longer iron with your signature swing. You may also want to practice with a longer club if you have yet to establish a swing you are comfortable.
Some golfers struggle with their distance because they do not complete their swing motion fully. This helps you make contact with the ball with proper precision of the club head. You create more power but not with the use of your arms and shoulders. When you swing you should not have tension in these areas or your attempt to control distance will be inconsistent.


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The Jews
"McDO, that's a Jewish business," my host Michel said contemptuously. I was staying with him and his wife, the lovely Marie-Jo in Apt, an ancient Gallic-Roman city in the south of France. The year was 2002 and I was in Provence to gather research on a book.
The couple had generously opened their home to me, someone they barely knew, and we had quickly become fast friends. Michel was a private chef; his wife was a nurse who was taking leave from her job to care for her elderly invalid mother who lived next door.
Michel had not always been a chef. He was a man of many sides and a checkered past. He didn't fit easily into any categories. For one, he had spent close to a decade in prison during his youth. The details were never really forthcoming, but it had something to do with underworld gangs in Marseilles. He would have looked the part, too, with his street tough's body, all barreled and bandy-legged, were it not for his warmth and ebullient nature.
It wasn't the first time I had heard him place the adjective "Jewish" next to a subject of opprobrium. Over the past two days, he had excoriated the "Juifs" in Israel and noted that someone who had charged him too much money for a service was a Jew. Now this.
Michel is a man of contradictions; he can cleave tenaciously to odious ideas — ideas that go utterly counter to his generosity of spirit. The moment had come to challenge them.
How is that?" I asked. "Monsieur Kroc, he's a Jew," he answered, as if informing me of the obvious.
Was this true? I wondered briefly to myself. Then I remembered with a Homer Simpson dope slap that it didn't matter. "You know, most big corporations are headed by Christians, but nobody accuses them of being 'Christian businesses'," I said mildly, and walked out of the room, too rattled to pursue the subject. But I resolved to pick up the issue at a later time, soon.
That evening, as we basked in post-dinner bonhomie, mellowed by a good rouge from a local vineyard, I thought the time might be ripe. I took up the question of Israel, since I knew it was one on which Michel and I had some agreement.
"You know, 'Israel' and the 'Jews' is not necessarily the same thing," I began. "There are many Jews, both inside and outside of Israel, who are against Israeli policy and the occupation. It's not a simple issue, and there's right and wrong, and terrorism, on both sides. Israel has a right to exist — and its creation was a response to the extermination of the Jews in Europe."
Michel pulled on his Gaulois thoughtfully for a moment. "You're right," he said. We'd made it to first base, but he wasn't off the hook.
"Why does there seem to be so much anti-Semitism in Europe?" I pressed on. I waited through another silence. Michel sighed.
"I think it is because we feel guilty," he responded quietly. "We feel guilty for the Holocaust. There were many here in France who did nothing, who let the Jews be taken away to the gas chambers. The Vichy government gave the Nazis a cadeau, a gift: the list of all the Jews registered in France. And we all share in that shame."
Jews In Provence: Early Times
The history of the Jews in France is complex. On the one hand, expulsions beginning in the twelfth century, pogroms, and show trials like the Dreyfuss Affair attest to a long history of persecution that ranged from the horrific to the merely shameful.
Jews In Provence: The Middle Ages
In the fourteenth century, Jews from northern Spain (Catalonia) found refuge in Arles and Tarascon, but in the fifteenth they were brutally expelled from those cities. In 1348, Pope Clement VI invited them to settle around his palace in Avignon and in the Comtat Venaissin, that area of Provence that was under the papal jurisdiction and today makes up part of the Vaucluse.
Preserving Europe's Classical Heritage
From the fall of Rome until the Crusades, the focal point of civilization had lain eastward at Byzantium and Baghdad (the latter was the largest city in the world by 800 AD, with two million inhabitants), while, other than Muslim Spain, Western Europe muddled along as a barbarian backwater.
In 1524, the long period of relative refuge began to erode. Driven out of the rest of Provence, the Jews of the Comtat Venaissin were confined within a ghetto, their houses restricted to one street, the carreiro, running between gates at both ends that were locked each night, sealing in the inhabitants. Medicine and wine production, two trades at which the Jews of Provence had excelled, were closed to them.
The tide began to turn again in the eighteenth century. Jewish communities experienced a revival of fortunes that accelerated when they won civil equality under the French Revolution. But two centuries later, the Jews of Provence lost their civil rights once again, thanks to the collaborationist regime established by Marshall Petain in the south of France during World War II.
I Go To Carpentras
I went looking for the traces of Jewish Provence in Carpentras, which had once been its heart. The oldest synagogue in France is there, still in use, and at one time, in the eighteenth century, Carpentras' some one thousand Jews comprised a quarter of the town's population. If I could go the place of its origins, perhaps I might find someone who could tell me what had happened to the Jews of Provence.
The Jewish Cemetery
Taking the car, I set off in search of my second objective, the Jewish cemetery. I passed a small sign with an arrow, "Cimetière Israelite," but could see nothing resembling a cemetery. I followed the heavily trafficked road past a Roman aqueduct and found myself back where I had started, in front of the gate to the old city.
The Arabs
Arab Invasion of France
The history of Arabic Muslims in France is no less complicated than that of the Jews and played a much greater role in the identity of the nation. The historian Norman Davies has written that European culture was early on defined by what it was not: not Jewish, not Muslim, not Asian, not African. Europe's very conception of itself, Davies says, was principally forged in its struggle against the Arabs during the early Middle Ages. Prompted by the Islamic expansion onto the European continent, it affected Spain and France the most.
By the time they engaged Martel's army, they were so heavily encumbered they could barely move. Torn between glory and greed, they panicked and abandoned both on the field.
Provence and the Caliphate
Some of the local Provençal nobles made common cause with the Saracens against the Frankish invader. In retaliation, Martel slaughtered the inhabitants of Avignon, thereby demonstrating that one man's hero is another man's terrorist.
From 888 to 972, a Saracen colony existed at what is today La Garde-Freinet, from which forays were mounted further into Provence and the Ligurian Alps. Fréjus also fell under Arab control until Count Guillaume of Provence routed the invaders in 972.
Christians Expel Arabs and Jews
But eventually, Arabs would have reason to fear Christians as much as Christians dreaded "the Moor." The direction of invasion was reversed during the Crusades, when Christians did the invading, murdering and pillaging deep into the Levant. During the Crusades, Jewish communities in Provence, as elsewhere in Europe, also came under brutal attack.
Islamophobia Returns After 9/11
After a long dormancy, fear of Islam arose anew against a backdrop of young, angry, male, unemployed Muslim immigrants and has only been exacerbated by 9/11 and its aftermath (most lately, as of this update, the horrific attacks in Paris in November 2015.)
My friends were no exception. Michel, whose indignation over Israeli expropriations of Palestinian olive groves to construct the "fence of separation" knew no bounds, would have liked nothing better than to throw all Arab immigrants out of France, with the Gypsies thrown in for good measure.
A Young Muslim Joins Me On A Walk
One problem, of course, is that none of them actually knew any Arabs, despite the fact that Apt has a sizable Arabic population living in the heart of the downtown area. Arab vendors dominate a large frontal section of the weekly market, offering their wares at bargain prices. Mounds of perfect, glistening peppers, tomatoes, eggplants and fruits of all kinds face stalls sheltering enormous burlap sacks placed on the ground and filled to the brim with aromatic spices in all shades of red, yellow, green and brown.
Yet whites largely walk right past those stands to patronize the native French-owned stalls further on. Unencumbered by nationalist prejudice, I scooped up the bargains in the Arab part of the market.
I had an opportunity to get one young Arab's opinion when I took a long walk one morning into the hills above Apt. As I trudged up the steep slope of the Luberon, he came up from behind and fell into step beside me.
My heart fluttered uneasily at the intrusion but it turned out that all he wanted to do was talk. His face was lean and a little homely, his clothes a bit shabby. But he spoke with a friendly enthusiasm that disarmed me. He was pleased as punch that I was from America.
"America," he exclaimed with rapture. "I love America!" What did he love about America, I wondered.
"Everything!" he told me. He waxed rhapsodic: he loved the movies, he loved the cars, he loved MacDonald's, he loved the people. I didn't ask him if he loved President Bush. But he did tell me he didn't love the French. Why was that, I asked him.
He answered that the French discriminated against the Arabs, that he couldn't get a job, and he had no hope that anything would change.
He wanted to come to America.
The Rise of Le Pen's National Front
One problem, of course, is that none of them actually knew any Arabs, despite the fact that Apt has a sizable Arabic population living in the heart of the downtown area. Arab vendors dominate a large frontal section of the weekly market, offering their wares at bargain prices. Mounds of perfect, glistening peppers, tomatoes, eggplants and fruits of all kinds face stalls sheltering enormous burlap sacks placed on the ground and filled to the brim with aromatic spices in all shades of red, yellow, green and brown.
My heart fluttered uneasily at the intrusion but it turned out that all he wanted to do was talk. His face was lean and a little homely, his clothes a bit shabby. But he spoke with a friendly enthusiasm that disarmed me. He was pleased as punch that I was from America.
"America," he exclaimed with rapture. "I love America!" What did he love about America, I wondered.
"Everything!" he told me. He waxed rhapsodic: he loved the movies, he loved the cars, he loved MacDonald's, he loved the people. I didn't ask him if he loved President Bush. But he did tell me he didn't love the French. Why was that, I asked him.
He answered that the French discriminated against the Arabs, that he couldn't get a job, and he had no hope that anything would change.
He wanted to come to America.
The Rise of Le Pen's National Front
September 11th pushed French xenophobia against its North African immigrants to the center of the domestic political map. From my vantage point in Provence, it looked like the preoccupation with immigration was raising political temperatures and eroding France's famous post-war liberalism. Jean-Marie Le Pen, France's perennial far-right candidate, stampeded onto center stage from the political margins in the post 9/11 national elections.
Islam and Traditional French Values
If Norman Davies is correct that Europe's identity was forged principally on the anvil of contrast to Arab Islam, then things haven't changed much in a thousand years. Today, there are many French who think Arab immigration will undermine French values. By banning Muslim girls from wearing the headscarf in school, the French government has given expression to the concerns of many French that Islam threatens an assault on republican values.
They might even find they are enriched by deeper contributions of Arab immigrants to European culture than kebab and couscous.
Not All Le Pen Supporters Are White
The irrationality of human beings was brought home to me one day as I waited for a bus in Nice around the time of the Spring elections. The bus was late and the press of waiting people grew. My patience waned as my boredom waxed.
The young woman standing next to me caught my eye with a smile of wry frustration. More to pass the time than anything else, I struck up a conversation with her. She was a native of Madagascar, working as a nanny for a rich French couple in Nice.
Self-interest and Blow-back
Fears of Islamic terrorism are real, but Europe has long had to deal with home-grown terrorists of other persuasions, from Sinn Fein to the Basque ETA. Those attacks were dealt with as police matters, not met with military force.
Moreover, trying to turn back the tide of immigration is not only foolhardy but dangerous. If xenophobia evolved as a protective mechanism, as the sociobiologists say, then in the Global Village it is one no longer. We are all members of the same tribe on this shrinking planet.
And, as we have witnessed in the U.S., fear and loathing of the Other leads to erosion of the civil protections of all citizens. As a result, all our lives are made less free.
Preserving Tradition
One of the greatest gifts the French have given to humankind was the philosophy of the French Enlightenment: the most fundamental precept of which was the equality of the rights of man.
If the French want to retain their traditional values, they should remember that these values don't discriminate: they apply to all, no matter how different we are. (We Americans are as much heirs to the French Enlightenment as the French are; its creed is what our Republic was founded upon.)


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Photo Friday: September 21, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
1. This is an old record shop in Federal Way. One day, after work, I attempted to surprise your Dad and buy him some records that he would love. Well, as it turns out - I'm a horrible gift-giver. I'm indecisive, and I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that I literally spent hours in this record store, pouring over records. I had no idea what to get. I know, deep down, he would have been happy with anything - to him, it's the thought that matters (always remember that about your Dad!) but I just couldn't pick. I literally agonized over it for hours, thought about his reaction to each gift, analyzed whether or not it would be something he would spend his own money on... so, instead, I left empty-handed and told him I was just going to take him out to dinner instead. :) I love giving gifts, but my awful indecisiveness makes it really hard sometimes! I just want every gift to be the best, when, in actuality - that's my biggest problem. People love gifts (well, except maybe your Auntie Jen, her "Oh my gosh, I love it" face sucks... so if you ever want to buy her something, you can double check with me and I'll make sure to help you) and it's always, always, always the thought and effort and heart that you put into it. Don't forget that!
2. I don't remember this guy's name, but he was (is?) a waiter at El Gaucho in Portland, OR. Your Dad and I went here one weekend and stayed at this awesome hotel (the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night, scariest thing ever) and we ate at this restaurant. Your Dad was pretty sure this guy was his long lost brother (I think it's the eyebrows... I'm guessing you know all about those. They are a very predominant Burton gene!). Anyway, Dad is VERY friendly. People love him - he makes friends everywhere he goes (we affectionately refer to him as 'Talky Talkerson') and this guy was no exception! Haha
3. Ugh. This is the hardest thing to remember - ever. Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. I found this verse one night when I was freaking out about a bone scan that your Grandma Cohee had to have... I had myself convinced that it was cancer and that my world was crumbling around me. So, that night I stayed home - opened my Bible - and just asked God to help calm me; give me the confidence that I needed to be completely faithful and know that it was all going to be ok. (It WAS ok... the biopsy was completely normal, I think the lump they found was just a calcium deposit, or something - basically, I had stressed myself out and cried my head off for no reason).
4. Ok, your Dad. Not only is he awesome in every sense of the word, but he's also A RIOT. We were going out for Auntie Ashley's birthday, and he took "country" to a whole new level. I, you can see, look somewhat normal (or, what we considered normal in 2011). I just have on a countryesque-baseball tee and a fitted flannel, some skinny jeans and brown boots. Your Dad however, likes to look as ridiculous as he can - huge belt buckle, cowboy hat, boots, and Goodwill flannel. And he talked all night in a Southern drawl with a toothpick hanging out of his mouth. Now, I know you're probably confused - because your Dad is the fashion conscious one out of the two of us... but more than anything, he likes to have fun. So, this is him, having some fun. Haha
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Allen Robinson Named Semifinalist for Biletnikoff Award
Penn State's star wide receiver Allen Robinson was named one of ten semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award earlier today.
This year, Robinson has hauled in 81 catches for 1,204 yards and six touchdowns. Robinson is currently fourth in the nation is receiving yards and ninth in receptions. The defending Big Ten Receiver of the Year was named to the preseason Biletnikoff Award watch list earlier this season.
Robinson broke former Biletnikoff winner Bobby Engram's single season school record for receiving yards during Penn State's game against Minnesota. This past weekend against Purdue, he broke his own single-season receptions record. He also the second receiver in Penn State history to record back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons.
Fans can vote once a day to determine which three receivers will advance as finalists. Robinson already leads the fan poll with 33 percent of the vote, but you can still vote for him here.
The Biletnikoff Award is named after former Florida State All-American Fred Biletnikoff. Today, it is presented to the nation's outstanding college football receiver by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation. The award does have some Penn State ties, as Engram received the first ever Biletnikoff in 1994.
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Bingo - RESCHEDULED
Date:Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 11:00 AM—12:30 PM
Location:Lithonia-Davidson Library
Event Type:Fun Activities
Age Group:Adult (18+)
Bring in the New Year by joining us for fun and great prizes! Please Note: This program was reschedule from January 17, 2018.
Please call or visit branch to register. Funding provided by the Friends of the Lithonia-Davidson Library.


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The commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the monumental 1964 Civil Rights Act in July, 1964 was accompanied by a wave of celebratory events back in April at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. President Obama gave the keynote address and three other living presidents, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton also gave their thoughts on the significance of the Act. They paid due homage to the profound impact the Act had in serving as a powerful wrecking ball that demolished the walls of legal segregation and ushered in an era of unbridled opportunities for many blacks. The changes are unmistakable today. Blacks are better educated, more prosperous, own more businesses, hold more positions in the professions, and have more elected officials than ever before.
Yet the towering racial improvements since Johnson put pen to the bill a half century ago masks a harsh reality. That is that the challenge and threats to civil rights 50 years later are, in some ways, more daunting than what Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders of that day faced.
When Johnson signed the bill, black leaders had already firmly staked out the moral high ground for a powerful and irresistible civil rights movement. It was classic good versus evil. Many white Americans were sickened by the gory news scenes of baton-battering racist Southern sheriffs, fire hoses, police dogs, and Klan violence unleashed against peaceful black protesters. Racial segregation was considered immoral and indefensible, and the civil rights leaders were hailed as martyrs and heroes in the fight for justice.
As America unraveled in the 1960s in the anarchy of urban riots, campus takeovers, and anti-war street battles, the civil rights movement and its leaders fell apart, too. Many of them fell victim to their own success and failure. When they broke down the racially restricted doors of corporations, government agencies, and universities, it was middle-class blacks, not the poor, who rushed headlong through them. As King embraced the rhetoric of the militant anti-war movement, he became a political pariah shunned by the White House, as well as mainstream white and black leaders.
King's murder in 1968 was a turning point for race relations in America. The self-destruction from within and political sabotage from outside of black organizations left the black poor organizationally fragmented and politically rudderless. The black poor, lacking competitive technical skills and professional training, and shunned by many middle-class black leaders, became expendable jail and street and cemetery fodder. Some turned to gangs, guns and drugs to survive.
A Pew study specifically released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington celebrations in August 2013 graphically made the point that the economic and social gaps between whites and African-Americans have widened over the last few decades despite massive spending by federal and state governments, state and federal civil rights laws, and two decades of affirmative action programs. The racial polarization has been endemic between blacks and whites on the George Zimmerman trial to just about every other controversial case that involves black and white perceptions of the workings of the criminal justice system.
A half century later, the task of redeeming the promise of the Civil Rights Act means confronting the crises of family breakdown, the rash of shamefully failing public schools, racial profiling, de facto Jim Crow housing segregation, the obscene racial disparities in the prison and criminal justice system, and the HIV/AIDS plague among blacks, the gut of affirmative action, and the full blown assault by the GOP on the Voting Rights Act. These are beguiling problems that define the racial battles today and these are the problems that King and the civil rights movement of his day only had begun to recognize and address. Civil rights leaders today also have to confront something else that civil rights leaders in 1964 did not have to face. They had the sympathy and goodwill of millions of whites, politicians, and business leaders in the peak years of the civil rights movement. Much of that goodwill has vanished in the belief that blacks have attained full equality. Things have regressed so much that there's much speculation that the 1964 Civil rights Act would have tough sledding getting through the heavily tea party influenced GOP controlled House today.
Then there's the reality that race matters in America can no longer be framed exclusively in black and white. Latinos and Asians have become major players in the fight for political and economic empowerment and figure big in the political strategies of Democratic and Republican presidential contenders. Today's civil rights leaders will have to figure out ways to balance the competing and sometimes contradictory needs of these and other ethnic groups and patch them into a workable coalition for change.
Still, civil rights leaders can draw strength from the courage, vision and dedication of those who battled for the 1964 Civil Rights Act's passage. They can and must continue to fight hard against the racial and economic injustices that still plague the nation fifty years after Johnson's landmark signing.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.


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Learners model how impacts throughout the Moon's history have broken rocks down into a mixture of dust, rocks, and boulders that covers the lunar surface. They consider how the dust will continue to hold a record of human exploration - in the form... (View More) of astronaut bootprints - for countless years in the future. Children may examine a type of Earth soil ("lunar soil simulant") that is similar to what is found on the Moon's surface and that would have been shaped by the processes explored here. The children create their own records of exploration by making rubbings of their shoes. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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